The creation of a broad and collaborative environment, initially tested by 100 companies from Central European countries, is expected to:

- Increase linkages with innovators beyond regional borders of the project regions

- Accelerate the time-to-market of R&D concepts from EU-funded research and Central European labs to companies

- Increase R&D expenditure and patent applications of mid-term turnover Create thematic focus groups as regional managers

- Collaborate on transnational technology transfer